Frona liked the man because he was a man.

In her wildest flights she could never imagine linking herself with any man, no matter how exalted spiritually, who was not a man physically.

It was a delight to her and a joy to look upon the strong males of her kind, with bodies comely in the sight of God and muscles swelling with the promise of deeds and work.

Man, to her, was preeminently a fighter.

She believed in natural selection and in sexual selection, and was certain that if man had thereby become possessed of faculties and functions, they were for him to use and could but tend to his good.